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"Useful as both a self-instruction manual and a guide to the analysis of sediments in both the field and the laboratory, this book provides ""cookbook recipes"" for common analytical procedures dealing with sediments. It also serves as an introduction to the principles and reference sources for procedures that generally would be performed by specialist consultants or commercial laboratories. Using a minimum of mathematics and virtually no theory, the book introduces practicioners to easy, inexpensive options for sample collection and preparation, data acquisition, analytical protocols, result interpretation and verification techniques. This step-by-step guide considers the advantages and limitations of different procedures, discusses safety and troubleshooting, and explains the importance of such support skills as mapping, photography and report writing. The scope of this book ranges from fieldwork through laboratory analytical procedures to downhole geological techniques. This book should be of interest to those involved in environmental science; forestry; fisheries; coastal management; hydrology; resource management; soil and water remediation; waste disposal; and construction engineering."

Full Product Details

Author:   Douglas W. Lewis ,  David McConchie
Publisher:   Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc.,U.S.
Imprint:   Van Nostrand Reinhold Inc.,U.S.
Edition:   1994 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 21.00cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   0.786kg
ISBN:  

9780442012168

ISBN 10:   0442012160
Pages:   197
Publication Date:   28 February 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- Safety Considerations.- Utilizing Personal Computers.- Project Design.- Ethics.- Selected Bibliography.- 2 Aerial Photographs and Maps.- Aerial Photographs and Satellite Imagery.- Maps.- Selected Bibliography.- 3 Fieldwork.- Field Equipment.- Field Mapping.- Photography.- Base Work—Evenings and Impossible Weather.- Chemical Field Analyses.- Selected Bibliography.- 4 Sampling.- Sampling Strategies.- Sample Collection.- Sampling Coal.- Sample Storage and Transport.- Peel Samples.- Selected Bibliography.- 5 Sample Treatment in the Laboratory.- Sample Splitting.- Water Content and Bulk Density.- Sediment Disaggregation and Dispersion.- Removal of Salts.- Removal of Sediment Components by Chemical Means.- Drying.- Extraction of Microfossils.- Mounting Loose Grains for Microscopy.- Impregnation Procedures.- Embedding Procedures.- Thin-Section Preparation.- Polished-Section Preparation.- Pore Stains.- Streak Prints.- Acetate Peels.- Rock Crushing and Grinding.- Preparation for Chemical Analysis.- Liquid and Plastic Limits.- Selected Bibliography.- 6 Analysis of Sedimentary Structures.- Enhancement of Original Structures.- Collection of Paleocurrent Data.- Correction of Directional Data for Tectonic Deformation.- Evaluation of Directional Data.- Presentation of Results.- Selected Bibliography.- 7 Textures.- Shape.- Methods for Determining the Size of Detrital Sediments.- Treatment of Size Data.- Texture of Carbonate Sediments.- Grain Surface Textures.- Fabric Studies.- Porosity and Permeability.- Selected Bibliography.- 8 Mineralogy.- Common Rock-Forming Minerals of Sand Size.- Optical Microscopy.- Cathodoluminescence.- Reflected Light Microscopy.- Coal Microscopy.- Heavy Minerals.- Electromagnetic Separation.- Miner’s Pan and Superpanner.- Mineral StainingMethods.- Modal Analysis of Thin and Polished Sections and Grain Mounts.- X-Ray Diffraction.- Differential Thermal Analysis and Thermogravimetric Analysis.- Infrared Spectrophotometry.- Raman Spectroscopy.- Mössbauer Spectroscopy.- Selected Bibliography.- 9 Chemical Composition.- General Considerations.- Loss on Ignition.- Organic and Inorganic Carbon.- Total Sulfur.- Total Kjeldahl Nitrogen.- Oils and Grease.- Ion Chromatography.- Electrochemical Methods.- X-Ray Fluorescence.- Electron Microprobe and EDAX.- Atomic Absorption.- Flame Photometry.- ICP and ICP-MS.- Spectrophotometry.- Selected Bibliography.- 10 Borehole Sedimentology.- The Borehole Environment.- Lithological Drilling Logs.- Geophysical Logs.- Correlation Using Geophysical Logs.- Selected Bibliography.

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...Highly useful, practical, and comprehensive. This book should be in every science library. - Choice.

...Highly useful, practical, and comprehensive. This book should be in every science library. - Choice.

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